below the level of Poland, Hungary and the CzechRepublic but is higher level ... have a combined current level of annual defenceexpenditure of about $2.4 billion ... GDP US$ per capita DefenceExpenditure US$ per capita Population, million Bulgaria Estonia Latvia Lithuania Romania Slovakia Slovenia NATO Europe Finland Sweden Lack of resources has been a fundamental constraint to achieving the military

africa, australia, belarus, belgium, botswana, canada, colombia, croatia, cuba, czechrepublic, denmark, ecuador, finland, france, gabon, georgia, ghana, grenada, guatemala, hungary, iceland, israel, laos, madagascar, mexico, mongolia, namibia, nepal, netherlands, norway, palau ... Considering funding for protected areas relative to what a country is worth or what it can afford, helps to overcome the relative differences in wealth and in costs of living. We consider GDP in our analysis as it seems a suitable measure of how much ... a proportion of overall government budget, or of GDP or even of defencespending for instance? Balmford and Whitten (2003) note that “a globally effective

czechrepublic, europe, poland, united states ... already declared that proposed spending limits will be insufficient. Minister Rostowski proposed abandoning a rule assuming spending on national defence at 2% of GDP